# sovereign/sovereign

A set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud: email, calendar, contacts, file sync, IRC bouncer, VPN, and more.

Repository: https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sovereign
Language: HTML
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-12-11T09:26:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4762, "days_push": 1361, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10570, forks 833 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:42.394118+00:00)

## What it is
Sovereign is a collection of Ansible playbooks that provision and maintain a complete personal cloud server from open source components. It deploys email (Dovecot, Postfix, Rspamd, Roundcube), calendar/contacts and file sync via ownCloud, XMPP chat, an OpenVPN server, an IRC bouncer, and monitoring on a single Linux server.

## Use cases
- self-host my own email server
- run a private cloud instead of Google Apps
- set up my own VPN server
- host my own calendar and contacts sync
- get a personal file sync cloud
- host webmail and XMPP on my own server
- learn Ansible from real-world playbooks

## When to choose
- you want full control and privacy over your email, files, and calendar without third-party providers
- you have a Linux server or VPS and prefer declarative Ansible-based provisioning
- you want a bundled suite of self-hosted services configured securely in one run

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained turnkey product - the last release was late 2022 and components like ownCloud and EncFS are aging
- you want to self-host on non-Debian systems or containers rather than a dedicated Ubuntu/Debian server
- you are not comfortable with SSH server administration and occasional manual maintenance

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: maintenance
- function: self-hosted, email, vpn, configuration-management, deployment, security, backup
- domain: self-hosted, privacy, cloud-computing, email, networking
- platform: cli, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: ansible, personal-cloud, email-server, owncloud, dovecot, nextcloud, privacy, mail-server, caldav, carddav, xmpp, openvpn, devops, linux

## Member repositories
- sovereign/sovereign (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:42.394118+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:18:31.584925+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:42.394118+00:00, sha 7ae7bc264698)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.